Students top STD case list

MAUMERE, East Nusa Tenggara: Among the recorded cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), students top the list at 36 percent, business people with 15.6 percent and civil servants are in third place at 11.7 percent, according to the family planning office here.

Norbertus Turwewi said on Saturday in Kalabahi, the capital of Alor regency, that the figures were based on data collected by the provincial chapter of the National Family Planning Board.

He said the figures reflected the low knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases including the spread of the Human Immnodeficiency Virus (HIV), which can lead to AIDS.(yac)